I didn’t have an orgasm, but I probably sounded like I was having one, because as I saw my daughter emerging I yelled “Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god!” It was amazing.

Yeah. Earlier this morning I was reading an article about the feud between Mary McCarthy and Lillian Hellman. Now THAT was a feud. We have really come down in the world.

Great essay on this topic by Mary Anne Mohanraj:

OMG, I forgot Aidan Quinn was in this....

Here, have an old Dykes to Watch Out For cartoon on bathroom policing:

M: Oh look, this isn’t an argument.
A: Yes it is.
M: No it isn’t. It’s just contradiction.
A: No it isn’t.

At the time it was painted, “negro” may have been the polite term.

Me too. On the other hand, my favorite fic of all time is No Reservations: Narnia.

It’s Finnegans Wake. No apostrophe.

And then there’s “toilet plume,” which is near unavoidable, since public toilets rarely have lids: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2304049…

You don’t need a seat for Elijah, just a glass of wine. He’s planning to drink and run.

There are more tigers in Texas than there are in the wild.

By some estimates, there are more tigers in private hands in Texas than there are living in the wild.

Ew ew ew ew ew ew ew

Easier to get? What could be easier than grabbing a piece of fruit?

True, and that’s why I died 18 years ago of diabetic ketoacidosis and my husband’s leaky heart valve had to be cured with herbs.

So in parliamentary systems, each party decides which candidate to run for each seat, correct? No primaries.

“Leaving out the complications of “passing” as some race, moving between cultures, or shifting racial boundaries, race depends only on ancestry.”

May he go on medication whose side effects include dry mouth, fatigue, muscle aches, and inability to orgasm.

Yes, there are some zoos that specialize in “rescue” animals — animals who for one reason or other can’t be returned to the wild.